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Historical Tripos - Part I: Paper 20 and Part II: Paper 4
HSPS Tripos – Part IIA: Pol 8 and Part IIB: Pol 10
THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
FROM c.1700 TO c.1890
Section A
A1 Hume A2 Montesquieu
A3 Rousseau A4 Smith
A5 Burke
A6 Wollstonecraft
A7 Kant A8 Bentham
A9 Constant A10 Hegel
A11 Tocqueville
A12 John Stuart Mill
A13 Marx
Section B
B14 Natural Law and History B15 Luxury and Commercial Society
B16 The Political Thought of the American Revolution
B17 The Political Thought of the French Revolution
B18 Culture and aesthetic politics in Germany 1770-1810
B19 Gender and Political Thought in the 18th and 19th centuries B20 Socialism before 1848 B21 Nationalism and the State
B22 Empire and Civilisation in nineteenth-century Political Thought
B23 Social Science and Political Thought
There is a convention that at least one question will be set on each of the above topics. At the
examination, candidates will be asked to answer three questions; at least one from
Section A and at least one from Section B. Overlap between answers must be avoided.
The aim of Section B is to allow students to consider the general context in political
thought within which the ideas of major political thinkers developed. The primary texts
suggested in Section B therefore have a different status from the set texts in Section A.
Candidates need not master every one of the Section B primary texts, but need to show
evidence of engagement with texts relating to each topic.
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The Bibliography is designed to aid Lecturers, Supervisors, and students. Students are not
expected to read every item on it, but should be guided in their reading by their supervisors.
They may then return to the Bibliography for further reading in an aspect of an author or topic
which particularly interests them, and for revision reading.
Works marked with an asterisk * are suggested as helpful introductions or as particularly
important interpretations of the author or topic.
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A1. HUME
Set texts:
A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. P.H. Nidditch (Oxford 1978) or eds. D.F. Norton and M.J.
Norton, (Oxford, 2000): Bk. III
Essays Moral, Political and Literary, ed. E.F. Miller (Indianapolis, 1985), especially essays
Part I 2-8, 12, 14, 21; Part II 1-9, 11-13, 16.
Suggested secondary reading:
*J.A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge, 2015)
Philosophy, politics and history:
*A.C. Baier, A Progress of Sentiments: Reflection on Hume’s Treatise (Cambridge MA, 1991)
chapters 7-12.
S. Blackburn, How to Read Hume (London, 2008)
J. Dunn, ‘From applied theology to social analysis: the break between John Locke and the
Scottish Enlightenment’, in Wealth and virtue: the shaping of political economy in the Scottish
Enlightenment, ed. I. Hont and M. Ignatieff (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 119-36.
D. Forbes, Hume’s Philosophical Politics (Cambridge, 1975)
*I. Hont, Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge, Mass, 2005), ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-156.
*N. Phillipson, Hume (London, 1989, repr. Penguin, London, 2011)
J. Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, Samuel Freeman (ed), (Cambridge
MA, 2007), ‘Lectures on Hume’, pp. 159-187.
*J. Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
(Cambridge, 2005), chapter 6, pp. 256-324.
P. Sagar, ‘The State without Sovereignty: Authority and Obligation in Hume’s Political
Philosophy’, History of Political Thought 36 (2015)
*D. Wootton, ‘David Hume “the Historian”’, in Cambridge Companion to Hume, 2nd edn,
pp. 447-480.
*J.P. Wright, Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2009)
Moral philosophy:
S. Darwall, ‘Motive and Obligation in Hume’s Ethics’ Nous 27 (1993), 415-448.
R. Cohon, ‘Artificial and Natural Virtues’, in S. Traiger (ed), The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s
Treatise (Oxford, 2006), 256-275.
R.L. Emerson, ‘Hume’s Intellectual Development: Part II’, in Emerson, Essays on David
Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment (Farnham, 2009), 103-126.
J. Harris, ‘Answering Bayle’s Question: Religious Belief in the Moral Philosophy of the
Scottish Enlightenment’, D. Garber and S. Nadler eds., Oxford Studies in Early Modern
Philosophy, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2003), 229-53.
*J. Moore, ‘Hume’s Theory of Justice and Property’, Political Studies, 24 (1976), 103-19.
*J. Moore, ‘Hume and Hutcheson’, in M. A. Stewart and J. P. Wright (eds), Hume and Hume’s
Connexions (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 25-37
J. Moore, ‘The Eclectic Stoic, the Mitigated Sceptic’ in E. Mazza and E. Ronchetti (eds),
New Essays on David Hume (Milan, 2007), pp. 133-170.
D.F. Norton, ‘Hume, Human Nature and the Foundations of Morality’ in Norton (ed),
Cambridge Companion to Hume (2nd edn, Cambridge, 2009), pp. 270-310.
D.F. Norton, ‘Hume and Hutcheson: The Question of Influence’ in D. Garber and S. Nadler
(eds), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, vol. 2 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 211-256.
*M.A. Stewart, ‘Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1711-1752’, in M. Frasca-Spada and P.
J.E. Kail (eds), Impressions of Hume (Oxford, 2005), 11-58.
L. Turco, ‘Hutcheson and Hume in a Recent Polemic’ in Mazza and Ronchetti (eds),
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New Essays on David Hume, 171-198.
Politics and political economy:
A.S. Cunningham, ‘David Hume’s Account of Luxury’, Journal of the History of Economic
Thought 27 (2005), 231-250.
Dees, Richard H. “‘One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions”: Hume on Government’, in
E. Schmidt Radcliffe (ed), A Companion to Hume (Oxford, 2008), pp. 388–405.
*I. Hont, The “Rich Country-Poor Country” Debate in the Scottish Enlightenment’, in
Jealousy of Trade, pp. 267-322.
I. Hont, ‘The “Rich Country-Poor Country” Debate Revisited: The Irish Origins and French
Reception of the Hume Paradox’, in M. Schabas and C. Wennerlind (eds), David Hume’s
Political Economy (London, 2008), pp. 243-323.
*I. Hont, ‘The Rhapsody of Public Debt: David Hume and Voluntary Bankruptcy’, in
Jealousy of Trade, pp. 325-353.
I. Hont, ‘The Luxury Debate in the Early Enlightenment’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds),
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 379-
418.
*J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Hume and the American Revolution: The Dying Thoughts of a North
Briton’, in Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History
(Cambridge, 1985), pp. 125-141.
J. Robertson, ‘Universal Monarchy and the Liberties of Europe: David Hume’s Critique of
an English Whig Doctrine’, in N. Phillipson and Q. Skinner (eds), Political Discourse in Early
Modern Britain (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 349-73.
*J. Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment (above), Ch 7, pp. 360-76.
C. Wennerlind, ‘The Link Between David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature and his
Fiduciary Theory of Money’, History of Political Economy 33 (2001), 139-160.
C. Wennerlind and M. Schabas (eds), David Hume’s Political Economy (London and New
York, 2008): esp. the chapters by Wennerlind and Schabas on money; Berry on superfluous
value (luxury); Charles and Cheney on French translations of Hume; Hont (above) on the
rich country – poor country question.
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A2. MONTESQUIEU
Set Text: The Spirit of the Laws, eds. A. Cohler, B. Miller and H. Stone (Cambridge, 1989)
Suggested secondary reading:
D.W. Carrithers, M.A. Mosher and P.A. Rahe (eds), Montesquieu’s Science of Politics:
Essays on the Spirit of the Laws, (Lanham MD, 2001)
*A.O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before its
Triumph (Princeton NJ, 1977)
D. Kelly, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political
Thought (Princeton, 2010), chapter 2
*N.O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the
Enlightenment, (Princeton NJ, 1980), Chapters 10-14
R. Kingston (ed), Montesquieu and His Legacy (Albany NY, 2008)
P.A. Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (New Haven CT, 2009)
R. Shackleton, Montesquieu: A Critical Biography, (London, 1961)
*J.N. Shklar, Montesquieu, (Oxford, 1987)
*M. Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual
Origins of the French Revolution (Princeton, 2007), chapters 2-3
*S. Tomaselli, ‘The Spirit of Nations’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds), The Cambridge
History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 9-39.
Particular topics:
P. Cheney, ‘Montesquieu’s Science of Commerce’, in Cheney, Revolutionary Commerce:
Globalization and the French Monarchy (Cambridge MA, 2010), chapter 2, pp. 52-86.
*C.P. Courtney, ‘Montesquieu and the Problem of “la diversité”’, in G. Barber and C. P.
Courtney (eds), Enlightenment Essays in Memory of Robert Shackleton (Oxford, 1988), 61-
81.
D. Desserud, ‘Commerce and Political Participation in Montesquieu’s Letter to Domville’
History of European Ideas, 25 (1999), 135-151.
*A. de Dijn, ‘Montesquieu’s controversial context: The Spirit of the Laws as a monarchist
tract’, History of Political Thought, 34, 1 (2013), 66-88.
A. de Dijn, ‘On Political Liberty: Montesquieu’s Missing Manuscript’, Political Theory, 39
(2011) 181-204.
A. de Dijn, ‘Was Montesquieu a Liberal Republican?’, The Review of Politics 76 (2014),
21–41.
*R. Douglas, ‘Montesquieu and Modern Republicanism’, Political Studies 60 (2012), 703-19.
E. Dziembowski, ‘The English Political Model in 18th-Century France’, Historical Research,
74 (2001), 151-71.
H.E. Ellis, ‘Montesquieu’s Modern Politics: The Spirit of the Laws and the problem of
modern monarchy in Old Regime France’, History of Political Thought, 10 (1989), 665-700.
*I. Hont, ‘The Luxury Debate in the Early Enlightenment’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds),
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), 379-418.
S. Krause, ‘The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu’, Political Theory 30
(2002), 702-27.
S. Mason, ‘Montesquieu on English Constitutionalism Revisited: A Government of
Potentiality and Paradoxes’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 278 (1990),
105-46.
S. Mason, ‘Montesquieu’s Vision of Europe and its European Context’, Studies on Voltaire and
the Eighteenth Century, 341 (1996), 61-87.
*P.A. Rahe, ‘The Book That Never Was: Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans in
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Historical Context’, History of Political Thought, 26 (2005), 43-89.
M. Richter, ‘Despotism’, in P. Wiener (ed), Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of
Selected Pivotal Ideas, (New York, 1973), Volume II, pp. 1-18.
R. Shackleton, ‘Montesquieu, Bolingbroke and the separation of powers’, in Shackleton,
Essays on Montesquieu and the Enlightenment, D. Gilson and M. Smith (eds), (Oxford, 1988),
pp. 3-16.
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A3. ROUSSEAU
Set Texts:
‘Discourse on Inequality’, including Rousseau's notes, in The Discourses and Other Early
Political Writings, ed. V. Gourevitch, (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 111-246.
Of the Social Contract, with the ‘Geneva Manuscript’, ‘The State of War’, ‘Letter to Mirabeau’,
and ‘Discourse of Political Economy’, in The Social Contract and Other Later Political
Writings, ed. V. Gourevitch, (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 3-176, pp. 268-71.
Suggested secondary reading:
General and introductory
*N.J.H. Dent, Rousseau: An Introduction to his Psychological, Social and Political Theory
(Oxford, 1988)
N.J.H. Dent, A Rousseau Dictionary (Oxford, 1992)
R. Douglass, Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions (Oxford, 2015).
J. Hope Mason, The Indispensable Rousseau (London, 1979)
*N.O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance and the Enlightenment
(Princeton NJ, 1980), chapter 15
T. O’Hagan, Rousseau (London, 2003)
*R. Wokler, Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2001)
*R. Wokler, Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment and their Legacies (Princeton, 2012)
collected articles, including:
pp. 1-28: ‘Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau’s Anthropology
Revisited’, also in Daedalus, 107 (1978), 107-34;
pp. 88-112: ‘Rousseau’s Pufendorf: natural Law and the foundations of commercial
society’, also in History of Political Thought, 15 (1994), 373-402
More particularly,
A. Abizadeh, ‘Banishing the Particular: Rousseau on Rhetoric, Patrie, and the Passions’,
Political Theory 29 (2001), 556-582.
S. Affeldt, ‘The Force of Freedom: Rousseau on Forcing to be Free’, Political Theory 27
(1999), 299-333.
C. Brooke, ‘Rousseau’s Second Discourse between Epicureanism and Stoicism", in S.
Hoffmann and C. MacDonald, (eds), Rousseau and Freedom (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 44-57.
*C. Brooke, Philosophic Pride. Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
(Princeton, 2012), Ch. 8: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
S.H. Campbell and J.T. Scott, ‘Rousseau’s Politic Argument in the Discourse on the
Sciences and Arts’, American Journal of Political Science 49 (2005), 818-828.
J. Cohen, Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (Oxford, 2010)
*V. Gourevitch, ‘Rousseau on Providence’, Review of Metaphysics 53 (2000), 565-611.
A. Honneth, ‘The depths of recognition: the legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’, in Avi Lifschitz
(ed), Engaging with Rousseau. Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the
Present (Cambridge, 2016), 189-206.
*I. Hont, Politics in Commercial Society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith (Cambridge,
Mass., 2015)
J. Hope Mason, ‘Individuals in Society: Rousseau’s Republican Vision’, History of Political
Thought, 10 (1989), 89-112.
J. Hope Mason, ‘“Forced to be Free”’, in R. Wokler (ed), Rousseau and Liberty (Manchester,
1995), 121-38.
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B. Kapossy, Iselin contra Rousseau (Basle, 2006), chapter 3, pp. 173-245.
C. Kelly, ‘“To Persuade without Convincing”: The Language of Rousseau’s Legislator’,
American Journal of Political Science 31 (1987), 321-335.
C. Kelly and E. Grace eds., Rousseau on Women, Love and Family (Hanover NH, 2009)
J.P. McCormick, ‘Rousseau’s Rome and the Repudiation of Populist Republicanism’, Critical
Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10 (2007), 3-27.
F. Neuhouser, ‘Freedom, Dependence and the General Will’, Philosophical Review, 102
(1993), 363-395.
*F. Neuhouser, Rousseau’s theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition
(Oxford, 2008)
F. Neuhouser, Rousseau’s critique of inequality: reconstructing the Second Discourse (Cambridge,
2014)
J. Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, Samuel Freeman ed., (Cambridge
MA, 2007), ‘Lectures on Rousseau’, pp. 191-248.
*P. Riley, Will and Political Legitimacy. A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory
(Cambridge, Mass., 1982), Ch. 4: ‘A possible explanation of Rousseau’s General Will’
H. Rosenblatt, ‘Rousseau, the Anticosmopolitan?’ Daedalus 137 (2008), 59-67.
H. Rosenblatt, ‘On the “Misogyny” of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Letter to d'Alembert in
Historical Context’, French Historical Studies 25 (2002), 91-114.
M. Schwartzberg, ‘Rousseau on Fundamental Law’, Political Studies 51 (2003), 387-403.
J.T. Scott, ‘Rousseau and the Melodious Language of Freedom’ Journal of Politics 59 (1997),
803-829 (on music, a major interest of Rousseau’s).
J.N. Shklar, ‘Rousseau’s Images of Authority’, in M. Cranston and R.S. Peters (eds), Hobbes
and Rousseau (New York, 1972), pp. 333-365.
*M. Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual
Origins of the French Revolution (Princeton NJ, 2007), chapter 3.
*M. Sonenscher, Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
(Princeton NJ, 2008) chapters 3, 6.
M. Sonenscher, ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought’,
Modern Intellectual History 14 (2017), 311-37.
J. Starobinski, Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction, trans. A. Goldhammer (Chicago IL,
1988)
*R. Tuck, The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy (Cambridge, 2015),
pp. 121-142.
*R. Tuck, ‘Rousseau and Hobbes: The Hobbesianism of Rousseau,’ in H. Rosenblatt and P.
Schweigert (eds), Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt (Cambridge, 2017),
pp. 37-62.
*R. Tuck, ‘From Rousseau to Kant’, in B. Kapossy, I. Nakhimovsky, S. Reinert, and R.
Whatmore (eds), Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political
Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 2018), pp. 82-110.
Rousseau and Geneva
*H. Rosenblatt, Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749–
1762 (Cambridge, 1997)
L. Kirk, ‘Genevan Republicanism’, in D. Wootton (ed), Republicanism, Liberty and
Commercial Society 1649-1776 (Stanford, CA, 1994), pp. 270-309.
*R. Whatmore, ‘Rousseau and the Representants: The Politics of the Lettres Ecrites de la
Montagne’, Modern Intellectual History, 3 (2006), 385-413.
R. Whatmore, ‘“A lover of peace more than liberty”? The Genevan rejection of Rousseau’s
politics’, in Avi Lifschitz (ed), Engaging with Rousseau. Reaction and Interpretation from the
Eighteenth Century to the Present (Cambridge, 2016), 1-16.
B. Kapossy, ‘Neo-Roman Republicanism and Commercial Society: The Example of
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Eighteenth-Century Berne’, in M. van Gelderen and Q. Skinner (eds), Republicanism: A
Shared European Heritage 2 vols, (Cambridge, 2002), vol. 2, pp. 226-247.
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A4. SMITH
Set Texts:
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, eds. D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie, 2 vols (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1976, reprinted Indianapolis, 1982)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, eds. T. Campbell, A.S.
Skinner and W. Todd, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, reprinted Indianapolis,
1981): Introduction and Plan of the Work, Books I; II, Ch 1; III; IV Chs 1, 8, 9; V, Ch.
1 Parts i and ii.
Suggested secondary reading:
Major interpretations:
*D. Forbes, ‘Sceptical Whiggism, Commerce and Liberty’, in A.S. Skinner and T. Wilson
(eds), Essays on Adam Smith (Oxford, 1975), pp. 179-201.
A. O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before its
Triumph (Princeton NJ, 1977)
*I. Hont, Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge, MA., 2005), ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-156; ‘Needs and
Justice in the Wealth of Nations’, pp. 389-443; ‘Adam Smith and the Political Economy of
the “Unnatural and Retrograde Order”’, pp. 354-388.
*I. Hont, ‘Adam Smith’s History of Law and Government as Political Theory’, in R, Bourke
and R. Geuss (eds), Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 131-
171.
*I. Hont, Politics in Commercial Society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
(Cambridge, Mass., 2015)
D. Kelly, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political
Thought (Princeton, 2010), chapter 3
**N. Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (London, 2010)
D. Stewart, An Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith L.L.D, in Smith, Essays on
Philosophical Subjects, ed. W. P. D. Wightman and J. C. Bryce, (Indianapolis IN, 1982)
*D. Winch, Adam Smith’s Politics, (Cambridge, 1978)
D. Winch, ‘Science and the Legislator: Adam Smith and After’, Economic Journal, 93
(1983), 501-29.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
F. Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral
Theory (Cambridge, 2010)
P. Force, Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
(Cambridge, 2003)
P. Force, ‘Rousseau and Smith: On Sympathy as the First Principle’, in Thinking
with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt, H. Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert (eds),
(Cambridge, 2017), pp. 115-131.
*C. Griswold, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1999)
*R.P. Hanley, ‘Commerce and Corruption: Rousseau’s Diagnosis and Adam Smith’s
Cure’, European Journal of Political Theory 7 (2008), 137-58.
R.P. Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009)
D.D. Raphael, The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy (Oxford, 2007)
A. Sen, ‘Introduction’, in Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. R. P. Hanley (London,
2010), pp. vii-xxvi.
The Wealth of Nations
*P. Bowles, ‘Adam Smith and the “Natural Progress of Opulence”’, Economica, n.s. 53 (1986),
109-118.
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S. Fleischacker, On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton
NJ, 2004)
D. Lieberman, ‘Adam Smith on Justice, Right and Law’, in K. Haakonnsen (ed),
Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 214-245.
*S. Muthu, ‘Adam Smith’s Critique of International Trading Companies’, Political Theory 36
(2008), 185-212.
J. Robertson, ‘The Legacy of Adam Smith: Government and Economic Development in The
Wealth of Nations’, in R. Bellamy (ed), Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-Century Political
Thought and Practice (London, 1990), 15-41.
E. Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Cambridge,
Mass, 2001), chapters 4, 8
G.J. Stigler, ‘Smith’s Travels on the Ship of State’, in A. S. Skinner and T. Wilson (eds),
Essays on Adam Smith, (Oxford, 1975), 237-46.
*K. Tribe, ‘Natural Liberty and Laissez Faire: How Adam Smith became a Free Trade
Ideologue’, in S. Copley and K. Sutherland (eds), Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”: New
Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester, 1995), 23-44.
J. Viner, ‘Adam Smith and Laissez Faire’, in D. A. Irwin (ed), Essays on the Intellectual
History of Economics (Princeton NJ, 1991), 85-113. The ‘Adam Smith Problem’
A. Oncken, ‘The Consistency of Adam Smith’, Economic Journal 7 (1897), 443-450.
K. Tribe, ‘“Das Adam Smith Problem” and the Origins of Modern Smith Scholarship’, History
of European Ideas 344 (2008), 514-525.
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A5. BURKE
Set Text:
Pre-Revolutionary Writings, ed. I. Harris, (Cambridge, 1993)
Reflections on the Revolution in France, A Critical Edition, ed. J.C.D. Clark (Stanford
CA, 2001); other editions available.
Suggested secondary reading:
*D. Armitage, ‘Edmund Burke and Reason of State’ Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (2000),
617-634.
*D. Bromwich, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke (Cambridge, Mass., 2014)
*R. Bourke, ‘Edmund Burke and the Politics of Conquest’, Modern Intellectual History 4
(2007), 403-432.
R. Bourke, ‘Liberty, Authority and Trust in Burke’s Idea of Empire’, Journal of the
History of Ideas 61 (2000), 453–71.
*R. Bourke, ‘Edmund Burke and Enlightenment Sociability: Justice, Honour and the Principles
of Government’, History of Political Thought 21 (2000), 632-656.
R. Bourke, ‘Burke, Enlightenment and Romanticism’ in D. Dwan and C. Insole (eds), The
Cambridge Companion to Burke (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 27–40.
R. Bourke, ‘Pity and Fear: Providential Sociability in Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry’ in M.F.
Deckard and K. Vermeir (eds), The Science of Sensibility: Reading Edmund Burke's
Philosophical Enquiry (London, 2012), pp. 151–75.
R. Bourke, ‘Party, Parliament and Conquest in Newly Ascribed Burke Manuscripts’, Historical
Journal, 55 (2012), 619–52.
*R. Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton, 2015)
R. Bourke, ‘Popular Sovereignty and Political Representation: Edmund Burke in the Context of
Eighteenth-Century Thought’, in R. Bourke and Q. Skinner (eds), Popular Sovereignty in
Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 2016), pp. 212-235.
P. Bullard, Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge, 2014)
G. Claeys, ‘The Reflections Refracted: The Critical Reception of Burke's Reflections on the
Revolution in France During the Early 1790s’, in J. Whale ed., Edmund Burke's Reflections on
the Revolution in France. New Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester, 2000).
J. Conniff, ‘Edmund Burke and His Critics: The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft’, Journal of
the History of Ideas 60 (1999), 299-318.
J. Conniff, ‘Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Coming Revolution in Ireland’,
Journal of the History of Ideas 47 (1986), 37-59.
I. Crowe (ed), An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke
(Columbia, Missouri, 2005)
*I. Hampsher-Monk, ‘Edmund Burke’, in Hampsher-Monk, A History of Modern Political
Thought (Oxford, 1992), pp. 261-304.
I. Hampshire-Monk, “Burke and the Religious Sources of Skeptical Conservatism”, in J. van
der Zande and R. H. Popkin, (eds), The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 (Dordrecht, 1988),
pp. 235–59.
*I. Hampsher-Monk, ‘Edmund Burke’s Changing Justification for Intervention’, Historical
Journal (2005), 65-100.
F.P. Lock, Edmund Burke, Volume I: 1730-1784, Volume II: 1784-1797 (Oxford, 1999-2006)
C.C. O’Brien, The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of
Edmund Burke (London, 1992)
*J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Introduction’, to Pocock (ed), [Burke], Reflections on the Revolution in
France (Indianapolis IN, 1987), pp. vii-lvi.
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Burke and the Ancient Constitution: A “Problem in the History of Ideas”’, in
Pocock, Politics, Language and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History (London,
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1972), pp. 202-32.
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘The Political Economy of Burke’s Analysis of the Revolution’, in Pocock,
Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, chiefly in the
Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 192-212.
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Edmund Burke and the Redefinition of Enthusiasm: The Context as Counter-
Revolution’, in F. Furet and M.Ozouf, (eds), The French Revolution and the Creation of
Modern Political Culture: The Transformation of Political Culture, 1789–1848 (Oxford,
1989), pp. 19–43.
W. Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge, 2019), chapter two
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A6. WOLLSTONECRAFT
Set Text: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. S. Tomaselli,
(Cambridge, 1995)
Also recommended:
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, ed. J.
Todd, in A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, An
Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (Oxford, 2008)
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, ed. R. Holmes, in
Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of “The Rights of Woman” (London, 1987)
Suggested secondary reading:
S. Bergès, The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights
of Woman, (London, 2013)
*S. Bergès and A. Coffee (eds), The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary
Wollstonecraft (Oxford, 2016)
D. Bromwich, ‘Wollstonecraft as a Critic of Burke’, Political Theory, 23 (1995), 617- 632.
J. Conniff, ‘Edmund Burke and His Critics: The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft’, Journal of
the History of Ideas, 60 (1999), 299-318.
D. Engster, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s Nurturing Liberalism: Between an Ethic of
Justice and Care’, American Political Science Review 95 (2001), 577-588.
M.H. Guest, Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810 (Chicago, 2000),
Introduction and Part IV.
W. Gunther-Canada, ‘The politics of sense and sensibility: Mary Wollstonecraft and
Catharine Macaulay Graham on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in
France’, in H.L. Smith (ed.), Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political
Tradition (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 126–147.
W. Gunther-Canada, Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment
Politics (DeKalb, Illinois, 2001)
R.M. Janes, ‘On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of
Women’, Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978), 293-302.
C.L. Johnson (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2006), esp.
chapters 2, 3, 4 and 7.
J. Moore (ed.), Mary Wollstonecraft, International Library of Essays in the History
of Social and Political Thought, (Farnham, Surrey, 2012)
T. O’Hagan, ‘Rousseau and Wollstonecraft on Sexual Equality’, in R. Bellamy and A. Ross
(eds), A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory (Manchester, 1996), pp. 123-54.
K. O’Brien, ‘Catharine Macaulay’s Histories of England: A Female Perspective on the History
of Liberty’ in B. Taylor and S. Knott (eds), Women, Gender and Enlightenment (Basingstoke,
2005), pp. 523-37.
K. O’Brien, Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2009)
D.I. O'Neill, The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy
(University Park, Pennsylvania, 2007)
M. Philp, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Justice’, in Philp, Godwin’s ‘Political Justice’
(London, 1986), pp. 175-92.
V. Sapiro, A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary
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Wollstonecraft (Chicago, 1992).
*B. Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003)
*B. Taylor, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
B. Taylor, ‘Rousseau and Wollstonecraft: Solitary Walkers’, in H. Rosenblatt and P.
Schweigert (eds), Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt (Cambridge,
2017) ch 11, pp. 211-234.
*Sylvana Tomaselli, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =
.
*S. Tomaselli, ‘The Most Public Sphere of all: The Family’, in E. Eger, C. Grant, C. Gallchoir
and P. Warburton (eds), Women, Writing and the Public Sphere 1700-1830 (Cambridge, 2001),
pp. 239-56.
*S. Tomaselli, ‘The Enlightenment Debate on Women’, History Workshop 20 (1985), 101-24.
J. Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, (London, 2000)
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/wollstonecraft/
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A7. KANT
Set Texts:
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, ed. M. Gregor (Cambridge, 1998)
Political Writings, ed. H. Reiss, (2nd edn., Cambridge, 1991)
Suggested secondary reading:
P. Guyer, Kant (London, 2006)
M. Kuehn, Kant: A Biography (Cambridge, 2001)
A. Wood, Kant (Oxford, 2005)
On Moral Theory:
H.E. Allison, Kant’s Theory of Freedom, (Cambridge, 1990).
*F.C. Beiser. Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism. The genesis of modern German
political thought 1790-1800 (Cambridge, MA, 1992), chap. 2: The politics of Kant’s Critical
Philosophy
R. Galvin, ‘The Universal Law Formulas’ in T. E. Hill Jr. (ed), The Blackwell Guide to
Kant’s Ethics (Oxford, 2009), pp. 52-82.
D. Henrich, ‘The Moral Image of the World’, in Heinrich (ed), Aesthetic Judgement and the
Moral Image of the World, (Stanford CA, 1992), 3-28
*C. Meckstroth, ‘Kant’s critique of morality’, in Meckstroth, The Struggle for Democracy:
Paradoxes of Progress and the Politics of Change (Oxford, 2015), pp. 80-113.
O. O’Neill, ‘The Public Use of Reason’, in O’Neill, Constructions of Reason: Explorations
of Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 28-50.
R.J. Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant’s Ethics, (Cambridge, 1994)
S. Sedgwick, Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction
(Cambridge, 2008)
J. Timmerman (ed.), Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide
(Cambridge, 2009)
*A. Wood, Kant’s Ethical Thought (Cambridge, 1999)
*A. Wood, ‘Kant’s Practical Philosophy’, in K. Ameriks (ed), The Cambridge
Companion to German Idealism (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 57-75.
On Kant’s Political Theory:
*E. Ellis, Kant’s Politics (New Haven, 2005), chapters 1-3
M. Gregor, ‘Kant’s Theory of Property’ in S. Byrd and J. Hruschka (eds), Kant and Law
(Aldershot, 2006), pp. 109-139.
D. Henrich, ‘On the Meaning of Rational Action in the State’, in R. Beiner and W. J. Booth (eds),
Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy, (New Haven CT, 1993), pp. 97-116
J.C. Laursen, ‘The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of “Public” and “Publicity”’, Political
Theory, 14 (1986), 584-603
R. Maliks, Kant’s Politics in Context (Oxford, 2014)
*C. Meckstroth, ‘Kant on Politics’, in Meckstroth, The Struggle for Democracy (above), pp.
114-138.
O. O’Neill, ‘Kant and the Social Contract Tradition’, in E. Ellis (ed.), Kant’s Political Theory
(University Park PA, 2012), pp. 25-41.
R.B. Pippin, ‘Mine and Thine: The Kantian State’ in P. Guyer (ed), The Cambridge
Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 416-446.
**A. Ripstein, Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Cambridge
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MA, 2009)
*R. Tuck, ‘The Hobbesianism of Kant’, in Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace:
Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant, (Oxford, 1999),
pp. 207-225.
J. Waldron, ‘Kant’s positivism’, in Waldron, The Dignity of Legislation (Cambridge, 1999),
pp. 36-62.
K.R. Westphal, ‘Natural Law Constructivism and Rational Justification’, in Westphal, How
Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating
Moral Realism (Oxford, 2016), pp. 91-112.
On Anthropology & Human Nature:
P. Guyer, ‘The Crooked Timber of Mankind’ in A Oksenberg Rorty and J. Schmidt (eds),
Kant’s Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim: A Critical Guide (Cambridge,
2009), pp. 129-149.
R.B. Louden, ‘Applying Kant’s Ethics: The Role of Anthropology’ in G. Bird (ed), A
Companion to Kant: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy (Oxford, 2010), pp. 350-363.
A. Wood, ‘Kant and the Problem of Human Nature’, in B. Jacobs and P. Kain (eds), Essays on
Kant’s Anthropology (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 38-59.
On Revolution:
L.W. Beck, ‘Kant and the Right to Revolution’, Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (1971),
411-22.
K. Flikschuh, ‘Reason, Right, and Revolution: Kant and Locke’, Philosophy and Public Affairs
36 (2008), 375-404.
C.M. Korsgaard, ‘Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right of
Revolution’, in Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason
and Moral Psychology (Oxford, 2008), pp. 233-62.
On Cosmopolitanism:
K. Flikschuh and L. Ypi, eds., Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical
Perspectives (Oxford, 2014)
J. Habermas, ‘Kant’s Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years’
Hindsight’ in J. Bohman and M. Lutz-Bachmann, Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s
Cosmopolitan Ideal (Cambridge, MA, 1997), pp. 113-154.
*O. Höffe, Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (Cambridge, 2006)
W. Kersting, ‘“The Civil Constitution in Every State Shall Be a Republican One”’, in K. Ameriks
and O. Höffe, Kant’s Moral and Legal Philosophy (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 246-264.
*P. Kleingeld. Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship
(Cambridge, 2011)
*C. Meckstroth, ‘Hospitality, or Kant’s Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights’,
Political Theory (2017)
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A8. BENTHAM
Set Texts: A Fragment of Government (1776), ed. R. Harrison (Cambridge, 1988)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), eds. J. H. Burns and H.
L.A. Hart, (Oxford, 1996), Preface, Chs 1-5, 14-15, 17, Concluding Note
Nonsense upon Stilts or Pandora’s Box Opened (c. 1795, published 1816), originally titled
‘Anarchical Fallacies’, in P. Schofield et al (eds), Rights, Representation and Reform. The
Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Political Writings (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002),
pp. 317-401.
Suggested secondary reading: *J.H. Burns, ‘Bentham and Blackstone: A Lifetime’s Dialectic’, Utilitas 1 (1989), 22-40.
*J.H. Burns, ‘Bentham’s Critique of Political Fallacies’, in B. Parekh (ed), Jeremy
Bentham: Ten Critical Essays, (London, 1974)
E. de Champs, Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in Fance
(Cambridge, 2015)
S. Darwall, ‘Hume and the Invention of Utilitarianism’ in M. A. Stewart and J. P. Wright
(eds), Hume and Hume’s Connexions, (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 58-82.
J. Dinwiddy, Bentham, (Oxford, 1989)
J.A.W. Gunn, ‘Jeremy Bentham and the Public Interest’, in J. Lively and A. Reeve (eds),
Modern Political Theory from Hobbes to Marx: Key Debates, (London, 1989), pp. 199-219.
*R. Harrison, Bentham, (London, 1983)
E. Halévy, The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism, M. Morris ed., (London, 1928)
H.L.A. Hart, ‘Natural Rights: Bentham and John Stuart Mill’, in Hart, Essays on Bentham:
Jurisprudence and Political Theory, (Oxford, 1982), pp. 79-104.
L.J. Hume, Bentham and Bureaucracy, (Cambridge, 1981)
P.J. Kelly, Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law,
(Oxford, 1990)
P.J. Kelly, ‘Classical Utilitarianism and the Concept of Freedom: A Response to the
Republican Critique’, Journal of Political Ideologies 6 (2001), 13-31.
*D. Lieberman, ‘From Bentham to Benthamism,’ The Historical Journal, 28 (1)
(Cambridge,1985).
*D. Lieberman, ‘Economy and Polity in Bentham’s Science of Legislation’, in S. Collini, R.
Whatmore and B. Young (eds), Economy, Polity and Society: British Intellectual History
1750-1950, (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 107-134.
*D. Lieberman, ‘The Mixed Constitution and the Common Law’, in Mark Goldie and Robert
Wokler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge,
2006)
*D. Lieberman, The Province of Legislation Determined: legal theory in eighteenth-century
Britain (Cambridge, 2002).
D. Lieberman, ‘Sir William Blackstone’ in Peter Newman (ed.), The New Palgrave Dictionary
of Economics and Law (London, 1998)
*D. Lyons, In the Interest of the Governed: A Study in Bentham’s Philosophy of Law, (Oxford,
1973)
F. Rosen, Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy: A Study of the
‘Constitutional Code’, (Oxford, 1983)
*F. Rosen, ‘The Origins of Liberal Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham and Liberty’, in R.
Bellamy (ed), Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and Practice,
(London, 1990), pp. 58-70.
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*P. Schofield, Utility and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham, (Oxford
2006)
R. Shackleton, ‘The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: The History of Bentham’s
Phrase’, in Shackleton, Essays on Montesquieu and on the Enlightenment, (eds) D. Gilson and
M. Smith, (Oxford, 1988), pp. 375-90.
W. Thomas, ‘Bentham and His Circle’, in Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in
Theory and Practice 1817-1841 (Oxford, 1979), 15-45.
J. Waldron, Nonsense upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, (London,
1987)
R. Whatmore, ‘Etienne Dumont, the British Constitution, and the French Revolution’,
Historical Journal 50 (2007), 23-47.
D. Wootton, ‘Introduction. The Republican Tradition: From Commonwealth to Common
Sense’, in Wootton (ed), Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649-1776,
(Stanford CA, 1994), pp. 1-41.
X. Zhai and M. Quinn, eds. Bentham’s Theory of Law and Public Opinion (Cambridge,
2014)
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A9. CONSTANT
Set Text:
Political Writings, ed. B. Fontana, (Cambridge, 1988)
Suggested secondary reading: A. Craiutu, A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought 1748-
1830 (Princeton, NJ, 2012), chap. 6.
G. Cubitt, ‘Revolution, Reaction, Restoration: The Meanings and Uses of Seventeenth-Century
English History in the Political Thinking of Benjamin Constant, c.1797-1830’, European
Review of History 14 (2007), 21-47.
A. de Dijn, French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled
Society? (Cambridge, 2008), chap. 4
G. Dodge, Benjamin Constant’s Philosophy of Liberalism: A Study in Politics and Religion
(Chapel Hill, NC, 1980)
*B Fontana, Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind (New Haven, CT, 1991)
F. Furet, ‘French Historians and the Reconstruction of the Republican Tradition, 1800-
1848’, in B. Fontana (ed), The Invention of the Modern Republic (Cambridge, 1994), 173-91
*B. Garsten, ‘Religion and the Case against Ancient Liberty: Benjamin Constant’s Other
Lectures’ Political Theory 38 (2010), 4-33.
B. Garsten, ‘Constant on the Religious Spirit of Liberalism’, in H. Rosenblatt (ed), The
Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Constant (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 286-312.
B. Garsten, ‘From Popular Sovereignty to Civil Society in Post-Revolutionary France’, in in R.
Bourke and Q. Skinner, eds, Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 2016),
pp. 236-269.
*M. Gauchet, ‘Liberalism’s Lucid Illusion’, in H. Rosenblatt (ed), The Cambridge Companion
to Benjamin Constant (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 23-46.
S. Holmes, Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (New Haven CT, 1984)
*S. Holmes, ‘The Liberty to Denounce: Ancient and Modern’, in Rosenblatt (ed),
Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Constant, pp. 47-68.
A. Jainchill, Reimagining Politics After the Terror: The Republican Origins of French
Liberalism (Ithaca NY, 2008)
*J. Jennings, ‘Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de
Tocqueville’, in G. Stedman Jones & G. Claeys (eds), The Cambridge History of
Nineteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2011)
G.A. Kelly, The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville and French Liberalism
(Cambridge, 1992)
A. Pitt, ‘The Religion of the Moderns: Freedom and Authenticity in Constant’s De la Religion’,
History of Political Thought, 21 (2000), 67-87
*J. Pitts, ‘Constant’s Thought on Slavery and Empire’, in Rosenblatt (ed), Cambridge
Companion to Benjamin Constant, pp. 115-145.
*H. Rosenblatt, Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (Cambridge,
2008)
*L. Siedentop, ‘Two Liberal Traditions’, in A. Ryan ed., The Idea of Freedom (Oxford,
1979), 153-74.
W. Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge, 2019), chapter four
G. de Staël, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, ed. A. Craiutu
(Indianapolis IN, 2008)
K.S. Vincent, ‘Benjamin Constant, the French Revolution, and the Origins of French
Romantic Liberalism’ French Historical Studies 23 (2000), 607-637
K.S. Vincent, Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism (New York, 2011)
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C.B. Welch, Liberty and Utility: The French Ideologues and the Transformation of Liberalism
(New York, 1984)
*R. Whatmore, ‘Democrats and Republicans in Restoration France’ European Journal of
Political Theory 3 (2004): 37-51.
R. Whatmore, ‘The Politics of Political Economy from Rousseau to Constant’, in M. Bevir and
F. Trentman (eds), Markets in Historical Contexts. Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
(Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 46-69.
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A10. HEGEL
Set Texts:
Elements of the Philosophy of Right, ed. A. Wood (Cambridge, 1991) [especially Preface,
Introduction, and Ethical Life]
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, Reason in History, ed. D. Forbes
(Cambridge, 1975)
Hegel: Political Writings, ed. L. Dickey (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 6-101: ‘The German
Constitution’, and 234-270: ‘On the English Reform Bill’.
Suggested secondary reading:
T. Pinkard, Hegel: A Biography (Cambridge, 2000)
*S. Avineri, Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State, (Cambridge, 1972)
*F. Beiser, Hegel (London, 2005)
L. Dickey, Hegel: Religion, Economics and the Politics of Spirit 1770-1807
(Cambridge, 1987)
R. Geuss, ‘Outside Ethics’, in Geuss, Outside Ethics (Princeton NJ, 2005), pp. 40-66.
J. Habermas, ‘Hegel’s Critique of the French Revolution’ and ‘On Hegel’s Political Writings’,
in Habermas, Theory and Practice, J. Viertel trans., (London, 1974) pp. 121-41 and 170-94
D. Henrich, ‘Logical Form and Real Totality: The Authentic Conceptual Form of Hegel’s
Concept of the State’, in R. Pippin and O. Höffe (eds), Hegel on Ethics and Politics
(Cambridge, 2004), pp. 241-267.
A. Honneth, The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory (Princeton,
NJ, 2010).
*M.J. Inwood, ‘Hegel, Plato and Greek ‘Sittlichkeit”, in Z.A. Pelczynski (ed), The State
and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political Philosophy, (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 40-54
D. Knowles, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right (London,
2002)
*G.E. Mueller, ‘The Hegel Legend of “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis”’, in J. Stewart (ed), The
Hegel Myths and Legends, (Evanston IL, 1996)
C.J. Nederman, ‘Hegel on the Medieval Foundations of the Modern State’, in
Nederman, Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the
Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (Washington D.C., 2009),
pp. 323-342.
*F. Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom (Cambridge MA,
2000).
Z.A. Pelczynski, ‘Political Community and Individual Freedom in Hegel’s Philosophy
of State’, in Pelczynski (ed), The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political
Philosophy, (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 55-76.
*R.B. Pippin, ‘Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: The Realization of Freedom’, in K. Ameriks (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 180-99
R.B. Pippin, ‘The Kantian Aftermath: Reaction and Revolution in Modern German
Philosophy,’ in Pippin, The Persistence of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 27-56.
*R. Plant, Hegel: An Introduction, (2nd edn., Oxford, 1983)
M. Riedel, Between Tradition and Revolution: The Hegelian Transformation of Political
Philosophy (Cambridge, 1984)
L. Siep, ‘The Aufhebung of Morality in Ethical Life’, in L. S. Stepelevich and D. Lamb
(eds), Hegel’s Philosophy of Action, (Atlantic Highlands NJ, 1983), pp. 137-56.
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G. Stedman Jones, ‘Hegel and the Economics of Civil Society’ in S. Kaviraj and S. Khilnani
(eds), Civil Society: History and Possibilities, (Cambridge, 2001)
J. Stewart (ed), The Hegel Myths and Legends, (Evanston IL, 1996)
C. Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society, (Cambridge, 1979)
J. Waldron, ‘Hegel’s Discussion of Property’, in Waldron, The Right to Private Property,
(Oxford, 1988), pp. 343-89
E. Weil, Hegel and the State, trans. M.A. Cohen (Baltimore MD, 1998)
*K. Westphal, ‘The Basic Context and Structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’, in F. C.
Beiser (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 234-69.
R.R. Williams, Hegel’s Ethics of Recognition (Berkeley CA, 1997), Part 2: ‘Recognition in the
Philosophy of Right’, pp. 109-363.
A. Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought, (Cambridge, 1990)
Specifically on the philosophy of history:
E.M. Dale, Hegel, the End of History, and the Future (Cambridge, 2014)
*C. Meckstroth, ‘Hegel on History,’ in Meckstroth, The Struggle for Democracy: Paradoxes of
Progress and the Politics of Change (Oxford, 2015), pp. 139-169.
J. McCarney, Hegel on History (London, 2000), Part 2: ‘The Course of History’.
T. Pinkard, Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice (Cambridge,
MA, 2017).
On Religion:
L. Dickey, ‘Hegel on Religion and Philosophy’, in F. C. Beiser (ed), The Cambridge
Companion to Hegel, (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 301-47
R. Geuss, ‘Art and Theodicy’, in Geuss, Morality, Culture and History: Essays on German
Philosophy (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 78-115.
*T.A. Lewis, Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel (Oxford, 2011)
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A11. TOCQUEVILLE
Set Texts: Democracy in America, eds H.C. Mansfield and D. Winthrop (Chicago, 2000)
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution, ed. J. Elster (Cambridge 2011)
Suggested secondary reading:
Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings, eds. A. Craiutu and J. Jennings
(Cambridge, 2009)
The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics, eds. O. Zunz and A. S. Kahan (Oxford,
2002)
E. Atanassow and R. Boyd (eds), Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (Cambridge,
2013)
R. Boesche, ‘Why Did Tocqueville Fear Abundance? Or the Tension Between Commerce and
Citizenship, History of European Ideas, 9 (1988), 25-45.
R. Boesche, The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville, (Ithaca NY, 1987)
R. Boesche, ‘Why did Tocqueville think a successful revolution was impossible?’ in Liberty,
Equality, Democracy, ed. E. Nolla (New York, 1992), pp. 1-20.
H. Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution, A Biography
(London, 2006)
*A. Craiutu, ‘Tocqueville and the Political Thought of the Doctrinaires’, History of Political
Thought 20 (1999).
A. de Dijn, French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled
Society? (Cambridge, 2008), chap. 6
*A. de Dijn, ‘The Intellectual Origins of Tocqueville’s L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution’,
Modern Intellectual History (2008), 1-25.
L. Damrosch, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America (New York, 2010)
M. Drolet, ‘Democracy and Political Economy: Tocqueville's Thoughts on J.-B. Say and T.R.
Malthus’, History of European Ideas 29 (2003), 159-181.
J. Elster, Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist (Cambridge, 2009)
J. Elster, ‘Consequences of Constitutional Choice: Reflections on Tocqueville’, in J. Elster
and R. Slagstad (eds), Constitutionalism and Democracy, (Cambridge, 1988), 81-102.
*F. Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution, Part II, ch. 2, ‘De Tocqueville and the Problem
of the French Revolution’, (Cambridge, 1981), 132-163.
B. Garsten, ‘From Popular Sovereignty to Civil Society in Post-Revolutionary France’, in in R.
Bourke and Q. Skinner, eds, Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 2016),
pp. 236-269.
J. Greenaway, ‘Burke and Tocqueville on Conservatism’, in R. Bellamy and A. Ross (eds), A
Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory, (Manchester, 1996), 179- 204.
L. Jaume, Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty, trans. A. Goldhammer (Princeton,
NJ, 2013).
*J. Jennings, ‘Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de
Tocqueville’, in G. Stedman Jones & G. Claeys (eds), The Cambridge History of
Nineteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge: 2011)
G.A. Kelly, The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville and French Liberalism (Cambridge,
1992)
S. Kessler, ‘Tocqueville's Puritans: Christianity and the American Founding’, Journal of
Politics 54 (1992), pp. 776-792.
M.J. Mancini, ‘Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville's American Reception’
Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (2008), 245-268.
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P. Manent, Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (Lanham MD, 1996)
H. Mitchell, ‘The Changing Conditions of Freedom: Tocqueville in the Light of Rousseau’,
History of Political Thought 9 (1988), 431-453.
*H. Mitchell, ‘Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution’, in F. Fehér
(ed), The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity, (Berkeley CA, 1990), 240-63.
*J. Pitts, ‘Tocqueville and the Algeria Question’, in Pitts, A Turn to Empire (Princeton NJ,
2005), ch. 7.
*M. Richter, ‘Tocqueville and Guizot on Democracy: From a Type of Society to a Political
Regime’ History of European Ideas 30 (2004), 61-82.
A. Ryan, On Tocqueville: Democracy and America (New York, 2014)
*L. Siedentop, Tocqueville, (Oxford, 1994)
W. Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge, 2019), chapter five
R. Swedberg, Tocqueville’s Political Economy (Princeton NJ, 2009)
C.B. Welch (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville (Cambridge, 2006)
*C.B. Welch, De Tocqueville (Oxford, 2001)
S. Wolin, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds (Princeton NJ, 2001)
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A12. J.S. MILL
Set Texts: ‘On Liberty’, and ‘On the Subjection of Women’, in On Liberty and Other Writings, ed. S. Collini
(Cambridge, 1989)
‘Considerations on Representative Government’, in Mill, Utilitarianism; On Liberty;
Considerations on Representative Government &c., ed. G. Williams., (London, 1993)
Principles of Political Economy, Books IV ‘Influence of the progress of society on production
and distribution’, and V ‘On the influence of government’, in Collected Works of J.S. Mill
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006), Vols 2, 3; editions also available online at:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP.html
Suggested secondary reading:
N. Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography (Cambridge, 2004)
F. Hayek, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Correspondence and Subsequent
Marriage (London, 1951)
D.O. Brink, Mill’s Progressive Principles (Oxford, 2013)
*J.H. Burns, ‘J.S. Mill and Democracy, 1829-61’, in J. B. Schneewind (ed), Mill: A Collection of
Critical Essays (Notre Dame, IN, 1968), pp. 280-328.
J.H. Burns, ‘The Light of Reason: Philosophical History in the Two Mills’, in J. M. Robson
and M. Laine (eds), James and John Stuart Mill: Papers of the Centenary Conference
(Toronto, 1976), pp. 3-20.
*G. Claeys, Mill and Paternalism (Cambridge, 2013)
*S. Collini, ‘Introduction’, to John Stuart Mill, Essays on Equality, Law and
Education, J. M. Robson ed., (Toronto, 1984)
S. Collini, ‘The Tendencies of Things: John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Method’, in
S. Collini, D. Winch and J. Burrow (eds), That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in
Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (Cambridge, 1983), 127-60.
G. Conti, Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and
Democracy in Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 2019)
R. Crisp, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism (London, 1997)
J. Gray and G.W. Smith, J.S. Mill: ‘On Liberty’ In Focus (London, 1991)
D. Edwards, ‘Toleration and Mill’s Liberty of Thought and Discussion’, in S. Mendus (ed),
Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1988), 87-114.
B. Eggleston, D.E. Miller, and D. Weinstein, eds. John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Oxford,
2010)
*R. Harrison, ‘John Stuart Mill, Mid-Victorian’, in Stedman Jones & Claeys (eds), Cambridge
History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought.
H.L.A. Hart, ‘Natural Rights: Bentham and John Stuart Mill’, in Hart, Essays on Bentham:
Jurisprudence and Political Theory (Oxford, 1982), pp. 79-104.
S. Holmes, ‘The Positive Constitutionalism of John Stuart Mill’, in Holmes, Passion and
Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (Chicago, 1995), pp. 178-201.
D. Kelly, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political
Thought (Princeton, NJ, 2010), Ch. 4
M. Mandelbaum, ‘On Interpreting Mill’s Utilitariansm’, Journal of the History of Philosophy
6 (1968), 35-46
A. Millar, ‘Mill on Religion’, in J. Skorupski (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Mill
(Cambridge, 1998), pp. 176-202.
J. Pitts, ‘James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain’, in
Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton NJ,
2005), pp. 123-162.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP.html
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A. Pyle ed., Liberty: Contemporary Responses to John Stuart Mill (Bristol, 1994)
R. Reeves, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (London, 2007)
J. Riley, Mill on Liberty (London, 1998)
J.M. Robson, ‘Civilisation and Culture as Moral Concepts’, in Skorupski (ed), The Cambridge
Companion to Mill, pp. 338-71.
J.M. Robson, The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart
Mill (London, 1968)
F. Rosen, Mill (Oxford, 2013)
F. Rosen, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (London, 2003)
*F. Rosen, ‘From Jeremy Bentham's radical philosophy to J. S. Mill's philosophic radicalism’,
in G. Stedman Jones & G. Claeys (eds), The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century
Political Thought (Cambridge, 2011)
*A. Ryan, ‘Two Concepts of Politics and Democracy: James and John Stuart Mill’, in J.
Lively and A. Reeve (eds), Modern Political Theory from Hobbes to Marx: Key Debates
(London, 1989), pp. 220-37.
L. Siedentop, ‘Two Liberal Traditions’, in A. Ryan (ed), The Idea of Freedom: Essays in
Honour of Isaiah Berlin (Oxford, 1979), pp. 153-74.
W. Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge, 2019), chapter six
J. Skorupski, John Stuart Mill (London, 1991)
G.W. Smith, ‘Freedom and Virtue in Politics: Some Aspects of Character, Circumstances
and Utility from Helvetius to J. S. Mill’, Utilitas 1 (1989), 112-34.
*W. Thomas, ‘John Stuart Mill and the Crisis of Benthamism’, in Thomas, The
Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice 1817-1841 (Oxford, 1979), pp.
147-205.
D.F. Thompson, John Stuart Mill and Representative Government (Princeton NJ, 1976)
*N. Urbinati, Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government
(Chicago, 2002)
*N. Urbinati & A. Zakaras (eds.), J.S. Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment
(Cambridge, 2007)
*A. Valls, ‘Self-Development and the Liberal State: The Cases of John Stuart Mill and
Wilhelm von Humboldt’, Review of Politics 61 (1999), 251-274.
On Economics:
O. Kurer, ‘J.S. Mill and Utopian Socialism’, Economic Record 68 (1992), 222-232.
J. Medearis, ‘Labor, Democracy, Utility and Mill’s Critique of Private Property’, American
Journal of Political Science 49 (2005), 135-149.
D.E. Miller, Mill’s “Socialism”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 2 (2003), 213-238.
J. Riley, ‘J. S. Mill’s Liberal Utilitarian Assessment of Capitalism versus Socialism’, Utilitas, 8
(1996), 39-71.
*J. Riley, ‘Mill’s Political Economy: Ricardian Science and Liberal Utilitarian Art’, in Skorupski
(ed), The Cambridge Companion to Mill, pp. 293-337.
D. Winch, Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in
Britain, 1848-1914 (Cambridge, 2009), Part 1 ‘Mill’s Principles’, pp. 27-88.
On the Subjection of Women:
*J. Annas, ‘Mill and the Subjection of Women’, Philosophy, 52 (1977), 179-94.
A.P. Robson and J.M. Robson, Sexual Equality: Writings by John Stuart Mill, Harriet
Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor (Toronto, 1994)
M.L. Shanley, ‘The Subjection of Women’, in Skorupski (ed), Cambridge Companion to
Mill, pp. 396-422.
On International Relations:
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Giorgios Varouxakis, Liberty Abroad. J.S. Mill on International Relations (Cambridge, 2013)
D. Bell, ‘John Stuart Mill on Colonies’, Political Theory, 38 (2010), 34-64.
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A13. MARX
Set Texts:
The Communist Manifesto, ed. G. Stedman Jones, (London, 2002)
Marx: Early Political Writings, J. O’Malley and R. A. Davis eds (Cambridge, 1994)
Marx: Later Political Writings, ed. T. Carver (Cambridge, 1996)
Capital; A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. I, ed. B. Fowkes (Harmondsworth, 1976),
Part 1, Chapter 1: ‘Commodities,’; Part 8: ‘So-Called Primitive Accumulation’
‘Marx-Zasulich’ correspondence in T. Shanin ed., Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and
the ‘Peripheries of Capitalism’ (London, 1983) also available in Karl Marx: Selected
Writings, e. D. McClellan, 2nd edition (Oxford, 2000).
Suggested secondary reading:
J. Sperber, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (New York, 2013)
T. Hunt, The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (London,
2009)
D. McLellan, Karl Marx: A Biography (London, 1995) [earlier ed. published as Karl Marx’s
Life and Thought (London, 1973)]
*G. Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (London, 2016)
K.B. Anderson, Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western
Societies (University of Chicago Press, 2010, 2nd rev. ed., 2016)
R. Bellofiore and R. Fineschi eds, Re-reading Marx: New Perspectives After the Critical
Edition (Basingstoke, 2009)
S. Benhabib, Critique, Norm, and Utopia (New York, 1986), pp. 32-43, 55-69, 102-133.
T. Carver, ‘The German Ideology Never Took Place’, History of Political Thought 31
(2010), 107-127.
T. Carver, ‘The Manifesto in Marx’s and Engels’s Lifetimes,’ in T. Carver and J. Carr
(eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto (Cambridge, 2015),
pp. 67-84.
T. Carver, Marx (Cambridge, 2018)
G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence (London, 1979)
*G.A. Cohen, ‘Forces and Relations of Production’ and ‘Marxism and Functional
Explanation’ in J. Roemer (ed), Analytical Marxism (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 11-22 and 221-
234.
*L. Coletti, ‘Introduction’ to Karl Marx, Early Writings (London, 1975), pp. 7-56.
*J. Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1986)
D. Gregory, ‘Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Knowledge of French Socialism in 1842-3’,
Historical Reflections, 10 (1983), 143-193.
A. Heller, The Theory of Need in Marx (London, 1976)
R.N. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, vol. I: Marx and Totalitarian
Democracy, 1818-1850 (Basingstoke, 1974)
D.R. Kelley, ‘The Metaphysics of Law: An Essay on the Very Young Marx’, American
Historical Review, 83 (1978), 350-67.
D.R. Kelley, ‘The Science of Anthropology: An Essay on the Very Old Marx’, Journal of
the History of Ideas 45 (1984), 245-62.
L. Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, Vol. 1, The Founders (Oxford, 1978)
*D. Leopold, The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human
Flourishing (Cambridge, 2007)
S. Lukes, Marxism and Morality (Oxford, 1987)
*N. Levine, ‘The German Historical School of Law and the Origins of Historical
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Materialism’, Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987), 431-451.
J. Maguire, Marx’s Theory of Politics (Cambridge, 1978)
*D. McLellan, The Thought of Karl Marx, 2nd ed (London, 1980), especially pp. 3-113.
R. Miller, Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History (Princeton NJ, 1984)
M. Musto (ed), Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150
Years Later (London, 2008)
Z.A. Pelczynski, ‘Nation, Civil Society, State: Hegelian Sources of the Marxian
Non-Theory of Nationality’, in Pelczynski (ed), The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s
Political Philosophy (Cambridge, 1984), 262-278.
*M. Postone, ‘Rethinking Capital in Light of the Grundrisse’, in Marcello Musto, ed., Karl
Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later
(London; 2008), 120-146.
M. Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical
Theory (Cambridge, 1993)
G. Reuten, ‘Karl Marx: His Work and the Major Changes of Interpretation’, in W. J. Samuels,
J.E. Biddle and J.B. Davis (eds), A Companion to the History of Economic Thought (Oxford,
2007), pp. 148-166.
*W.C. Roberts, Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Princeton NJ, 2017), chapter
three
A. Roncaglia, ‘Karl Marx’, in Roncaglia, The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
(Cambridge, 2005), pp. 244-277.
*G. Stedman Jones, ‘Introduction’ to The Communist Manifesto, ed. G. Stedman Jones, (London,
2002)
*G. Stedman Jones, ‘Radicalism and the Extra-European World: The Case of Marx,’ in D. Bell
(ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth
Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 186-214
G. Wada, ‘Marx and Revolutionary Russia’, in T. Shanin (ed), Late Marx and the Russian
Road: Marx and the ‘Peripheries of Capitalism’ (London, 1983), 40-75.
*A. Wood, ‘The Marxian Critique of Justice’ Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (1972): 244-
282.
A. Wood, Karl Marx, 2nd ed. (Abingdon, 2004)
S. Wolin, ‘Marx: Theorist of the Political Economy of the Proletariat or of Uncollapsed
Capitalism?’, in Wolin, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western
Political Thought, expanded ed., (Princeton NJ, 2004), pp. 406-453.
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B14. NATURAL LAW AND HISTORY
Suggested primary reading:
Christian Thomasius, ‘On the History of Natural Law until Grotius’ (1707), in
Essays on Church, State and Politics, ed. I. Hunter, T. Ahnert and F. Grunert
(Indianapolis, 2007), pp. 1-48
Francis Hutcheson, ‘On the Natural Sociability of Mankind’, Inaugural Oration (1730), in
Francis Hutcheson, Logic, Metaphysics and the Natural Sociability of Mankind, ed. James
Moore (Indianapolis, 2006), pp. 189-216
Giambattista Vico, The New Science (1744), transl. and ed. T.H. Bergin and M.H. Fisch
(Cornell, 1984), Idea of the Work, Books I, IV-V, Conclusion
Suggested secondary reading:
*M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political
Thought (Cambridge, 2006), Part III: Natural Jurisprudence and the Science of Legislation,
including:
9. K. Haakonssen, ‘German Natural Law’
10. J. Moore, ‘Natural Rights and the Scottish Enlightenment’
12. P. Riley, ‘Social Contract Theory and its Critics’
*J. Robertson, ‘Sociability in sacred historical perspective 1650-1800’, in B. Kapossy, I.
Nakhimovsky, S. Reinert, and R. Whatmore (eds), Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of
Trade and the History of Political Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 2018), 53-81
*R. Tuck, ‘The “modern” theory of Natural Law’, in A. Pagden (ed.), The Languages of
Political Theory in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1987), 99-122
More particularly, on Natural Law in Germany:
*T.J. Hochstrasser, Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2000)
I. Hunter, Rival Enlightenments. Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern
Germany (Cambridge, 2001)
I. Hunter, The Secularisation of the Confessional State. The Political Thought of Christian
Thomasius (Cambridge, 2011)
On Natural Law in Scotland:
K. Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy. From Grotius to the Scottish
Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1996), esp. Chs 1: ‘Natural Law in the seventeenth century’, 2:
‘Natural Law and moral realism: Francis Hutcheson and George Turnbull’
*K. Haakonssen, ‘Natural Jurisprudence and the identity of the Scottish Enlightenment’, in R.
Savage (ed), Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain. New Case Studies (Oxford,
2012), 258-278.
J. Harris, ‘Hume on the moral obligation to justice’, Hume Studies, 36 (2010), 25-50.
J. Moore, ‘The two systems of Francis Hutcheson: on the origins of the Scottish
Enlightenment’, in M.A. Stewart (ed), Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
(Oxford, 1990), 37-60.
*J. Moore, ‘Hume and Hutcheson’, in M.A. Stewart and J.P. Wright (eds), Hume and Hume’s
Connexions (Edinburgh, 1994), 23-57.
P.C. Westerman, ‘Hume and the natural Lawyers: a change of landscape’, also in Stewart and
Wright (eds), Hume and Hume’s Connexions, 83-104.
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On Vico’s response to Natural Law:
*D. Faucci, ‘Vico and Grotius: Jurisconsults of Mankind’, in G. Tagliacozzo and H.V.
White (eds), Giambattista Vico: An International Symposium (Baltimore, MD, 1969), pp.
61-76.
C. ‘t Hart, ‘Hugo de Groot and Giambattista Vico’, Netherlands International Law Review 30
(1983), 5-41.
D.R. Kelley, ‘Vico’s Road: From Philology to Jurisprudence and Back’, in G. Tagliacozzo
and D. O. Verene eds., Giambattista Vico’s Science of Humanity Baltimore, 1976), 15-29
J.C. Morrison, ‘Vico’s Doctrine of the Natural Law of the Gentes’, Journal of the History
of Philosophy 16 (1978), 47-60.
J.C. Morrison, ‘How to Interpret the Idea of Divine Providence in Vico’s New Science’,
Philosophy and Rhetoric 12 (1979), 256-261.
*J.C. Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
(Cambridge, 2005), chapter 5, ‘Vico after Bayle’, pp. 201-255.
Also:
*C. Brooke, Philosophic Pride. Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
(Princeton, 2012), esp., chs 6-8.
*R. Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace. Political Thought and the International Order from
Grotius to Kant (Oxford, 1999)
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B15. LUXURY AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETY
Suggested primary reading:
Fénelon, Telemachus (1699), ed. P. Riley (Cambridge, 1994) Bks I-III, VII, X, XIV, XVII-
XVIII
Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the Bees (1723), ed. F.B. Kaye, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924;
repr. Indianapolis, 1988), Volume I
Jean-François Melon, A Political Essay upon Commerce, transl. David Bindon (Dublin, 1738,
repr. 1739), Chs 1-9, 15-18 (available on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online)
Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), ed. F. Oz-Salzberger (Cambridge,
1995), or ed. D. Forbes (Edinburgh, 1966)
Suggested secondary reading:
The Luxury Debate and political economy:
*A.O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism
before its Triumph (Princeton NJ, 1977)
A.O. Hirschman, ‘Rival Views of Market Society’, in Hirschman, Rival Views of Market
Society and other Recent Essays (New York, 1986), 105-41.
*I. Hont, ‘The Early Enlightenment Debate on Commerce and Luxury’, in M. Goldie and R.
Wokler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
(Cambridge, 2006), pp. 379-418.
*I. Hont, Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge, Mass, 2005), ‘Introduction’ pp. 1-156, and
chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6.
*J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition (Princeton NJ, 1975), chapters 12-14.
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Virtues, Rights and Manners: A Model for Historians of Political Thought’, in
Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History chiefly in the
Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1985), 37-50
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Perceptions of Modernity in Early Modern Historical Thinking’, Intellectual
History Review 17 (2007), 79-92.
J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 3: The First Decline and Fall (Cambridge,
2003), chapter 16, pp. 372-416.
P. Slack, ‘Material progress and the challenge of affluence in seventeenth-century England’,
Economic History Review, 62 (2009), pp. 576-603.
D. Winch, Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain
1750-1834 (Cambridge, 1996), Part I, 57-89.
On Mandeville:
T.A. Horne, The Social Thought of Bernard Mandeville: Virtue and Commerce in Early
Eighteenth Century England (London, 1978), chapter 3.
E.J. Hundert, The Enlightenment's Fable (Cambridge, 1994)
*E.J. Hundert, ‘Bernard Mandeville and the Enlightenment’s Maxims of Modernity’, Journal
of the History of Ideas 56 (1994), 577–93
*J. Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment. Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge,
2005), pp. 261-280.
The French debate:
H.C. Clark, Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old Regime France
(Lanham, MD, 2007), chapters 2-8.
N.O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment
(Princeton NJ, 1980), Parts III and IV.
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*D. van Kley, ‘Pierre Nicole, Jansenism, and the Morality of Enlightened Self Interest’ in A. C.
Kors and P. J. Korshin, (eds), Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and
Germany (Philadelphia PA, 1987), pp. 69-85.
L. Rothkrug, Opposition to Louis XIV. The Political and Social Origins of the French
Enlightenment (Princeton, 1965)
*J. Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of
the French Revolution (Ithaca NY, 2006)
*M. Sonenscher, ‘Property, Community and Citizenship’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds),
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 465-
496.
The Italian debate:
J. Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
(Cambridge, 2005), chapter 7, ‘The Advent of Enlightenment: Political Economy in Naples and
Scotland 1730-1760’, pp. 325-376.
T. Wahnbaeck, Luxury and Public Happiness. Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment
(Oxford, 2004)
On Ferguson:
C. Finlay, ‘Rhetoric and Citizenship in Adam Ferguson’s Essay on the History of Civil
Society’, History of Political Thought 27 (2006), 27-49.
R. Hamowy, ‘Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and the Division of Labour’, Economica, n.s. 35
(1968), 244-259.
*R. Hamowy, ‘Scottish Thought and the American Revolution: Adam Ferguson’s Response
to Richard Price’, in D. Womersley (ed), Liberty and the American Experience in the
Eighteenth Century (Indianapolis IN, 2006), pp. 348-387.
E. Heath, ‘Ferguson on the Unintended Emergence of Social Order’, in E. Heath and V.
Merolle (eds), Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society (London, 2009), pp. 155-
168.
D. Kettler, ‘History and Theory in Ferguson’s Essay on the History of Civil Society’, Political
Theory 5 (1977), 437-60
*I. McDaniel, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s
Future (Harvard, MA, 2013)
I. McDaniel, ‘Ferguson, Roman History and the Threat of Military Government in Modern
Europe’, in E. Heath and V. Merolle (eds), Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human
Nature (London, 2007), pp. 115-130.
*I. McDaniel, ‘Philosophical History and the Science of Man in Scotland: Adam Ferguson’s
response to Rousseau’, Modern Intellectual History, 10 (2013), 543-68
G.L. McDowell, ‘Commerce, Virtue and Politics: Adam Ferguson’s Constitutionalism’,
Review of Politics 45 (1983), 36-52.
*R.B. Sher, ‘From Troglodytes to Americans: Montesquieu and the Scottish
Enlightenment on Liberty, Virtue, and Commerce’, in David Wootton (ed), Republicanism,
Liberty and Commercial Society 1649-1776 (Stanford CA, 1994), 368-402.
R.B. Sher, ‘Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense’
Journal of Modern History 61 (1989), 240-68.
C. Smith, Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish
Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 2019)
J. Viner, ‘The Intellectual History of Laissez Faire’, in Viner, Essays on the Intellectual
History of Economics, D. A. Irwin ed., (Princeton NJ, 1991), pp. 200-25.
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B16. POLITICAL THOUGHT
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Suggested primary reading:
John Adams, ‘A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law’ (1765), ‘Thoughts on
Government’ (1776), in John P. Diggins, ed., The Portable John Adams (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 2004), 209–41
Thomas Jefferson, ‘A Summary View of the Rights of British America’ (1774), in Jefferson:
Political Writings, ed. Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1999), pp. 63-80, or in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York:
Library of America, 1984), 103–22
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ed. Isaac Kramnick (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, introd. by
Adrienne Koch (1966: New York: W. W. Norton, 1969)
J.R. Pole, ed., The American Constitution - For and Against: The Federalist and Anti-
Federalist Papers (New York: Hill and Wang, 1987)
‘Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions’ (1765), ‘Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental
Congress’ (1774), ‘Mecklenberg County Resolutions’ (1775), ‘Declaration of Independence’
(1776), ‘Virginia Bill of Rights’ (1776), ‘Articles of Confederation’ (1777–81), ‘Virginia
Statute of Religious Liberty’ (1786), ‘Virginia Plan’ (1787), ‘New Jersey Plan’ (1787),
‘Hamilton’s Plan of Union’ (1787), ‘Constitution of the United States’ (1787), in Henry Steele
Commager, ed., Documents of American History, seventh ed. (New York: Appleton–Century–
Crofts, 1963), 1: 55–56, 82–84, 98–104, 111–16, 125–26, 134–49
Supplementary primary reading: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed. Isaac Kramnick
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987) [and in many other editions]
John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America (1787), Discourses
on Davila (1790), in J.P. Diggins, ed., The Portable John Adams (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
2004), 289–394.
Suggested secondary reading: *D. Adair, ‘‘That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science’: David Hume, James Madison, and
the Tenth Federalist’, in H.T. Colbourn (ed), Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays of
Douglass Adair (Indiananapolis, IN, 1998), 132–51.
J. Appleby, ‘What is Still American in the Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson?’, William
and Mary Quarterly 39 (1982), 287–309.
*D. Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2007)
*B. Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge MA: Harvard
University Press, 1967)
T. Ball and J.G.A. Pocock (eds), Conceptual Change and the Constitution (Lawrence, Kansas,
1988)
*L. Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal
Republic (Ithaca, NY, 1995)
R. Beeman et al. (eds), Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American
National Identity (Chapel Hill, NC, 1987)
H. Belz, R. Hoffman and P. Albert (eds), To Form a More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas of
the Constitution (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1992)
T.H. Breen, ‘Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions
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Once More in Need of Revising’, Journal of American History 84 (1997), 13–39
S. Cornell, ‘Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti–Federalism’, Journal of
American History 76 (1990), 1148–72.
M. Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the
Making of the American State (Oxford, 2003)
*J.P. Greene, ‘Negotiated Authorities: The Problem of Governance in the Extended Polities of
the Early Modern Atlantic World’ in Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and
Constitutional History (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1994), 1–24.
M. Grossberg and C. Tomlins, eds., The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume 1:
Early America (1580–1815) (Cambridge, 2008), 447–554.
D.C. Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (Lawrence, Kansas,
2003)
W. Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (New York, 2007)
A.H. Kelly et al, The American Constitution, Its Origins and Development (New York, 1991)
A.L. LaCroix, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Cambridge, MA, 2010)
and the Place of Religion in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)
B. Manin, ‘Checks, Balances and Boundaries: the Separation of Powers in the Constitutional
Debate of 1787’, in B. Fontana, ed., The Invention of the Modern Republic (Cambridge, 1994),
27–62.
P. Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, 2010)
R.K. Matthews, If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason
(Lawrence, Kansas, 1995)
E. Nelson, The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Cambridge,
Mass., 2014)
E. Nelson, ‘Prerogative, Popular Sovereignty, and the American Founding,’ in in R. Bourke
and Q. Skinner (eds), Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 2016), pp. 187-
211.
*P.S. Onuf, ‘Reflections on the Founding: Constitutional Historiography in Bicentennial
Perspective’, William and Mary Quarterly 46 (1989), 341–75
J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition (Princeton NJ, 1975), chap. 15
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘1776: The Revolution against Parliament’, in J.G.A. Pocock, ed., Three British
Revolutions: 1641, 1688 and 1776 (Princeton, NJ, 1980), 265–88
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘Empire, State and Confederation: The War of American Independence as a
Crisis in Multiple Monarchy’, in J. Robertson, ed., A Union for Empire: Political Thought and
the Union of 1707 (Cambridge, 1995), 318–48.
J.Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the American Constitution
(New York, 1996)
D. Staloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American
Founding (New York, 2005)
R. Tuck, ‘America’, in Tuck, The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy
(Cambridge, 2015), pp. 181-248.
D. Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (New York, 2009)
G.S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic 1776–1787 (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1969)
G.S. Wood, ‘The American Revolution’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler, eds., The Cambridge
History of Eighteenth–Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), chap. 21
C. Yirush, Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675–
1775 (Cambridge, 2011)
‘Forum: The Madisonian Moment’, William and Mary Quarterly 59 (2002), 865–956.
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B17. POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Suggested primary reading:
Sieyès, Political Writings, ed M. Sonenscher (Indianapolis, 2003)
Condorcet, Political Writings, ed. S. Lukes and N. Urbinati (Cambridge, 2012)
Saint-Just, Robespierre, Speeches, in K.M. Baker (ed.), The Old Regime and the French
Revolution: Readings in Western Civilisation (Chicago, 1987), pp. 304-7 (Saint-Just), 368-84
(Robespierre); also in M. Walzer (ed), Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis
XVI (New York, 1992) (Saint-Just); R.T. Bienvenu (ed) The Ninth of Thermidor: the fall of
Robespierre (New York, 1968), pp. 32-49 (Robespierre)
Paine, The Rights of Man, ed. G. Claeys (Indianapolis, 1992)
Also:
G. de Staël, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, ed. A. Craiutu
(Indianapolis IN, 2008)
Suggested secondary reading:
Major interpretations:
*K.M. Baker, ‘Fixing the French Constitution’, in K. M. Baker, Inventing the French